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They say plan it. I say do it.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
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The principal reason, invariably, most successful giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.
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Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and soul into making the dream come true, then WoW Projects-and all of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and financial riches that they bring will surely NOT be our lot in life!
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
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I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
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Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
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